The outsourcer : the story of India's IT revolution / / Dinesh C. Sharma

• Autore: Sharma Dinesh C
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/70050954
• Soggetto topico: Computer software industry - India - History; Information technology - India - History
• Soggetto non controllato: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General; ECONOMICS/Labor Studies; BUSINESS/Management
• Note generali: Originally published as: The long revolution.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; Exchange Rate of Indian Rupee vis-à-vis U.S. Dollar (End-of-Year Rates); Introduction; 1 India's First Computers; 2 The Beginning of State Involvement; 3 The Rise, Fall, and Rise of IBM; 4 The Dawn of the Computer Age in India; 5 Discovering a New Continent; 6 Software Dreams Take Flight; 7 The Transition to Offshore; 8 Turning Geography into History; 9 Conclusion: The Making of a Digital Nation; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.
• Titolo autorizzato: The outsourcer
• ISBN: 0-262-32834-8; 0-262-32833-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797210003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of computing